Sunday, July 17, 2016

can you say "another river day" - there's gonna be a lot of them coming up! oh and making healing salve!

wow! this is the first july here that we have had so many river days. the river was calm and we took many dips while down at the river for only an hour and a bit! isn't it beautiful? the regular pic for my friend C.

but before dips in the river there are many chores around the manor that must be done...cats fed, birds fed, hummingbird water to be made, berkeys to be filled, greenhouse opened and watered and herbs to be gathered for morning soup.

that is home-grown sage, rosemary, thyme and parsley all to be added to home-made bone broth with butter-fried liver - yummeh!

can you say iron and calcium to start your day? i know that you can!

then it's odd jobs around the house and yard and then time for some dinner. how about fajitas with steak, home-made guacamole (which i still call "gwak-a-mole" and can't stop myself from laughing hilariously whenever i say it - bahahahahah!), home-made salsa and 4 stir-fried coloured peppers and onions to complete the meal.

then it's down to the river we go. it's quite strange - we never got this many river days in july before. the climate is changing people...regardless of what you believe. here's a grouse feather we found down at the river after a dip.

remember that patch of wild rose flowers that are growing across our bog? well, even more of them have flowered!

here's a closeup of the ones that grow right where our loungers are...

sooooo pretty!

and then the other day jambaloney is in our local home hardware and buying 24 more tiny canning jars. we've gone through about a hundred in the last few years and it's what i make my "healing" salve in.

i've made this salve and given it to friends and jambaloney and i use it like mad! it is good for cuts, scrapes, bruises, bug bites, sunburns, rashes, chaffed anything (lips, feet, knees or elbows) - it's a wonderful product. i have given and sent it to friends over the years so even though we still have a ton of these little jars - jambaloney decided to add to our stash.

the man at the counter asked jambaloney "what were we making him?" - i think he was thinking we were making jams, jellies or marmalades. jambaloney said healing salve. the man at the counter and the woman there asked about it. jambaloney explained that i used 3 of the most precious and healing herbs and then made salve from it. another man in the store (D) lifted up his sleeve and asked could the salve help with psoriasis and jambaloney said it could definitely help and that when i made my next batch, he would leave some for him at the store.

so that kicked me in the butt to make some more. we have a jar at each of our chairs in front of the tv, a jar in the kitchen, a jar in the bathroom and one jar in our preps. we don't worry about stocking it because i can pretty much make a ton every summer. but i have given a lot away to friends and whatnot so it was time to make another batch.

here's the usual suspects that go into making a batch. 15ish comfrey leaves, a bunch of comfrey flowers, 15ish leaves of plantain and a whole pile of heal-all flowers.

put all of that in your "salve-making"pot and just cover it all with Extra Virgin Cold Pressed Olive Oil - it is VERY important to use the best olive oil that you can.

you want to boil it for a good 15 minutes so that it starts to look crispy like this.

and then you want to remove it from the heat and let it settle for several hours so it looks like this.

and then the next day (tomorrow for me) you want to heat it up to a boil again. and then let it sit. i will finish my explanation in a post tomorrow to show you what else you need to do to make a wonderfully-organic healing salve. so stay tuned.

but you know what else is wonderfully-organic and a healing salve????

how about these fresh-caught trout with home-made dill sauce, some spinach and pineapple and our first 3 ripe strawberries???

stay tuned for the rest of my tutorial on how to make a healing salve that you will love.

Did you know that 80% of olive oil from Italy is actually low grade. The industry controlled by the mob and they make the farmers use the cheapest presses and claim it as the most high quality products. 60 minutes did a good story on this last year. Their advice was to buy only non Italian Olive oil or use something like Avacado oil. Otherwise you do not know what you are really buying.

Making your own salve at home with fresh organic homegrown items is the best way to stock up one's medicine cabinet. I love those little canning jars just for homemade medicine :-) They really do come in handy and they're hard to find. When I run across them in town, I usually will pick up a box or two. OMG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TROUT!!!!!I'm thinking we have to go fishing for Trout this year when it's nice and cold out. Bulldog Man and I will be the only fools in the area fishing in 20 degree temperatures and loving it!!!!

I am interested in the healing salve too.. Might need to start my own little garden of medicinal herbs. I love the little jars, if not for the fact that they are little and cute. They come in handy to keep small things in like spare change, buttons...or in my case the small tiny lego pieces the boys have.. But mostly they make awesome shot glasses...lol Of all the things in the pictures though, I actually like the table with the heart and yall's initials... that is sweet.

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Who Are We?

we are jambaloney and kymber. here's a pic of us below...we look very happy and content. it's because we really are!

About jambaloney

(he's only 23 in this pic...he has 20+years of additional muscle now...if you can believe it!)

kymber here and talking about jambaloney.

i've always called him my angel. my rock. my best half. the best part of what i have always wanted to become.

he has a soul as big as the biggest mountain, he is strong, he is in incredible physical condition, he is 51 and yet most people think he is under 40. he is humble and modest, charming, gorgeous and will help anyone with anything at anytime. he never grumbles and only every now and again complains or is a tiny bit cranky (nothing that a hug can't fix!). he can cut both sides out of 70 tires in minutes, build raised beds from scrap wood that he drags out of the forest, weedwhack 800ft of our road down to the river, and haul more wheelbarrows of dirt, mulch, rocks and seaweed than is probably medically-advised. he's learned how to braid, make bread and no one makes better rice - not even the chinese. he supports my every, crazy endevour. he went 44 years without a driver's license and got his license after being trained by my crazily-wonderful french canadian friend in 2 weeks. she never stopped talking the whole time. in french.

he has biked everywhere his entire life, at one job he biked 24km EACH WAY. that's to and from! 24km to work AND 24km from work! oh and just accidentally has an honours degree in philosophy.

i believe that he is Our Lord's most beautiful and perfect creation. but i might be biased. he can very accurately shoot a ben pearson cougar re-curve from both the left and right. and his aim is dead on.

he is bow-legged and only 5'7", but has the most incredible eyes. and a tiny mole on his upper lip. he writes the most romantic "insta-poems". he tells me he loves me several times a day. he calls me "babe" and "honey". and he means it.he loves hot sauce and spicey things like cayenne and banana peppers, he buys (or now picks) me flowers, he left a lucrative, high-paying IT job and his family to follow me here to this remote little island. he builds me shelves and washes all of our laundry with me by hand.

oh and he was baptized Anglican. and was an alter boy. sheesh. somehow, through my intervention, i am turning him into a pagan-christian-fundamentalist-confuscian. look, even i can't figure that out!

the name jambaloney is a nickname that i gave him over 10 years ago. he still uses it. he can be reached at "jambaloney@gmail.com". he loves comments or emails. and he loves me.

if i were given the opportunity to wish one thing for the world - i would wish that every woman on the planet had a jambaloney. i know that i could save the world this way. i have friends who have asked me to clone him. i am trying. believe me, i am trying. one day i will perfect the science involved, and when that happens, i promise all of you a jambaloney.

i love him more than...breathing, lobster, boiled dinner, fresh bread out of the oven, bugging out, singing back up for Madonna (ok...i made that one up!), fresh sheets on the bed, a glass of red wine after a long day, sunflower seeds, lavender, growing my own potatoes, T.S. Eliot, dancing, my babies (who are really just cranky old cats!) and the Bible.

i love him more than i love Framboise Manor. and i really love Framboise Manor.

About kymber

(this pic might seem odd. trust me, it's not. 20 yrs ago kymber went shopping with a girlfriend from the military and bought this dress. then she hooked up with that girlfriend recently. they caught up through email and one day kymberz friend mentioned that specific dress. kymber said she still had it (kymber still has her prom gown for crying out loud!). the friend did not believe it. so we had to take a pic of kymber wearing the 20yr old dress for her friend. kymber always likes to add accessories...and well, we had the bunny ears laying around. ya know, cuz everyone always has pink bunny ears laying around. ok, that's it...i am out of here! jambaloney)

what can i say about kymber?? A LOT!!most of it will have to wait for blog entries ‘cuz i just don’t have enough space here to do her justice…

so i’ll have to do my best… first and foremost, kymber is my partner and i will love her forever. she is the best partner anyone could ever have, i am one lucky guy!! she is 46, she is sweet as can be, smart as a whip, super cute, exceptionally feminine, strong as an ox, honest, kind, empathetic, wise, an amazing dancer, a master wit in speaking and writing….i could go on..i will!

at 5’ 1’’ she packs a wallop – a true force of nature -she is a master gardener and chef and spent 10 years in the Canadian Military – she has done 2 tours of Alert (the north bloody-cold pole). she is a UN-certified Korean linguist and spoils our 2 cats rotten. she also spent 12yrs working in the federal government, as a communications analyst at SolGen (now PSEPC) and Fintrac. she loves nature in the true sense of the phrase..the wildflowers, insects and birds here at framboise manor keep her entranced and captivated for hours.

anyone who is her friend knows that she will stop at nothing to help and heal, dedication and loyalty are an integral part of who she is and she is dead serious about anything she puts her mind to. yet she maintains the most delicate touch and a smile on her face always, never afraid to live and love no matter where and when.

she is the most genuine human being i have ever met! and she has encouraged me to embark on the most crazy and exciting adventure i could imagine… thank you babe - i sooo love you!!!